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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	child_n	father_n	husband_n	1,444	5	7.6618	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08179	A discourse, of marriage and vviuing and of the greatest mystery therein contained: how to choose a good wife from a bad. An argument of the dearest vse, but the deepest cunning that man may erre in: which is, to cut by a thrid betweene the greatest good or euill in the world. Pertinent to both sexes, and conditions, as well those already gone before, as shortly to enter this honest society. By Alex. Niccholes, Batchelour in the art he neuer yet put in practise.	Niccholes, Alexander.	1615 (1615)	STC 18514; ESTC S113190	36,315	64

others embracing or as though extreame affection without controule could not but this manifest it selfe and breake out yet decease and such a lethe of forgetfulnesse shall so soone or●rake thée as if thou hadst neuer beene nay so little a quantity of time shall confine it that shee shall not lie in her month but shée shall bée Churched againe and open to another all thy fruitions with as fresh and plenteous an appetite as the harlot to her next sinner Yonger brothers and poore Knights may sometimes to these monsters make vse of their byrths and Titles making them pay déere as it cost for their dubbing and release of Purgatory they are in with old ranke and fashion to their new Eliseum and instaulement and it must be confest vnwise they were but with good boote and addition to refuse a Virginity to accept a Widdow-hood and yet many times with a Turkish fate wée pay déere for our Credo quod habemus that article of Beliefe we too fondly build vpon when wée pay for the iewell that another hath stollen and in hope of treasure imbrace the ransackt casket yet they are too blame that haue thus béene to blame and for their easy punishment their first night shall discouer them Bee not suddaine therefore vpon thy resolution in this point because deceite many times lurkes in a modest face but let long acquaintance or inquiry the more secure thee The Country deceiues the Citty the Citty againe returnes it with interest and lust so raignes in both that there is scarce the quantity of virgins to be found in either to match the Parable in the Scripture they haue faces more fairer then men but hearts more deformed then deuils It is ill building vpon a broken foundation amendment may skinne the soare but the scarce will long after retaine a blemish yet no doubt free thought which is frée and dreames and wishes which are but shadowes though the rilling ruffians that break through all bosomes superficially rauish all woman kinde from eight to eighty and no doubt from actuall transgressions many may be found frée for there was neuer infection so generall but it spared some neuer battell so great that all were wounded some of Eues Off-spring haue withstood the temptation all haue not tasted the forbidden Trée and such a one if thou canst pray to prey vpon she hath portion enough without other portion if shée thus continue it for shée shall make thee a father of vndoubted children shee shall not wrinkle thy thoughts with distracting iealousies nor vpbraide with a former husband thy vnkindnesses her Mayden thoughts shall receiue from thee a more perfect impression of loue and duty and returne it backe more legibly indorsed and written frée from all former character inscription or soyle her affection shall be strong not allayed by former wearing shee shall bée such a one as it is a heauen to liue with all a mysery to mourne without shée shall bée to thy sences and delight as the budding Rose in the youth of the spring nay shall be such a one that Hee that walkes by thy dore shall point at her and hee that dwels by her shall enuy him that hath her and euery man shall admire his hap but he most fully reioyce and be glad that hath her and all generations shall call such blessed CHAP. IX Since the end of Marriage is issue whether it be lawfull for old Couples to marry that are past hope of Children or whether it be lawfull for an old man to marry a yong Maide or the contrary THe chiefe end of Marriage is proles Issue yet there are other respects in that couenant that no doubt may tollerate the most ancient in this kinde God saw that it was not good for Adam to be alone therefore hée made him an helper and Saint Paul saith Rather marry then burne and as it is in another place Vae solus Woe to him that is alone for if hee fall hee hath not one to helpe him vp Now those in age to come neerest to a common and sub-correctiue vnderstanding are most defectiue in their members and therefore most subiect to fall and so by consequence most need of this helpe to raise them vp of this staffe for their stay and besides for ought that euer I could heare or obserue that age is most proue to scortch it selfe in the flames of that fire and therefore may lawfully pertake the remedy against it and for the latter proposition for ought I sée the Law forbids not the act But the circumstances may breed some danger for if the wife be yong enough though the husband be nere so decrepit shee shall not bee out of all likely-hood to sée encrease of her body but hee that thus vndertakes to mannage in his age what hath shaked the heart of youth may be commended for his valour but shall nere be crowned for his wisedome And for such a one I trust hee shall not need to bee iealous for that his doubt shall bee apparantly enough resolued One asked Diogenes vpon a time for some direction how to choose a wife because hee was a Phylosopher saith he vnto him fellow choose one without a head if thou canst without a body and without lims so her hands shall not offend in striking nor her tongue in rayling nor her body in lusting Another time seeing a man in his olde age going to Church to make vp his second Marriage said O foole hast thou so lately beene shipwracked and wilt needs to sea againe The Law of God nor man doth not forbid such Marriages but no pollicy in earth commends them man wife should be two in one but can heate cold youth age be in one and not bee repugnant hee that aduentures so for sweete meates shall finde them relished with much bitter sauce they say the Oake would longer last were it not for the intwyning and embracing Iuy but in this case I entend the contrary for the aged Oake here blasteth the yonger Iuy with the heate of youth must againe renue according to our Poet. No sharper corsiue to our blooming yeares Then the cold badge of Winter blasted heyres Many worldly respects may conioyne these Marriages but this sudor will cracke in the wearing and he that so old seekes for a nurse so yong shall haue pappe with a Hatchet for his comfort CHAP. X. The difference betweene Loue and Lust LVst the destroyer of Loue the supplanter and vnder-myner of chastity the Spring-frost of beauty the tyrant of the night the enemy of the day the most potent match-maker in all Marriages vnder thirty and the chiefe breaker of all from eighteene to eight that protests that in a hote bloud that it nere performes in a cold a regarder onely of the present and to that effect will with Esau sell a birthright for a messe of pottage no longer esteeming the obiect then the vse which in like example is thus further followed according to a more